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[News Script: Excited Father in Train Auto Crash] (open access)

[News Script: Excited Father in Train Auto Crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man who crashed into a switcher engine with a borrowed car. He was rushing home to take his seven-month-old son to a hospital after the child lost the tip of his finger, because his four year old brother slammed a refrigerator door on his hand.
Date: August 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Dope Peddlers Hit in Mass Roundup] (open access)

[News Script: Dope Peddlers Hit in Mass Roundup]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the arrest of over one-hundred people suspected of dealing marijuana. It is the largest mass arrest of narcotics violators in the history of the city.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Wedding] (open access)

[News Script: Wedding]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the wedding of Bobby Jean Roberts, a Dallas waitress, and Horace C. Buell, a deaf man. They were planning for a church wedding, but were married at Baylor hospital after the groom suffered from a broken ankle.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Benbrook Drowning Ruled Accidental] (open access)

[News Script: Benbrook Drowning Ruled Accidental]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an drowning investigation.
Date: December 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Boy Goes to Trial in Death of Mother] (open access)

[News Script: Boy Goes to Trial in Death of Mother]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an eighteen-year-old youth, Charles Everett Cole, and his trial for killing his mother. Cole states that he shot at his step-father in self-defense, but he accidentally shot his mother.
Date: October 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New Car, Sassy T, To Make Debut] (open access)

[News Script: New Car, Sassy T, To Make Debut]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new car named the Sassy Tee, which make its debut tomorrow at Fort Worth's Shrine parade. Jim Schmidley Junior worked on the car for seven weeks.
Date: November 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Health Center] (open access)

[News Script: Health Center]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a protest at the new city-county health center in Fort Worth. Some citizens believe the center is too close to the Will Rogers Memorial grounds.
Date: November 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Yule Lights] (open access)

[News Script: Yule Lights]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the lighting of Christmas lights in downtown Fort Worth. Merchants also decorate their windows with Christmas decorations.
Date: November 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: River Oaks Bank Payoff Scheduled] (open access)

[News Script: River Oaks Bank Payoff Scheduled]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the FDIC's announcement that it will begin paying off depositors of the River Oaks State Bank, which recently closed.
Date: October 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: News Briefs; Robbers] (open access)

[News Script: News Briefs; Robbers]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two boys admitting they committed four robberies. The boys are Major Burchfield and Joe Thomas Burke.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Woman Charged in Shooting] (open access)

[News Script: Woman Charged in Shooting]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a car wreck that caused minor damage to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kell. They were accompanying their son, Don Kell, to the hospital after he had been shot by his wife, Frances, during an argument over an electric fan. The wife says that she shot him in self-defense. He entered the hospital in poor condition.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Composer Involved in Pedestrian Accident] (open access)

[News Script: Composer Involved in Pedestrian Accident]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Don Johnson hitting William W. Weaver accidentally with his car, it was determined Johnson was in the right of way and let go.
Date: December 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Soap Box Derby] (open access)

[News Script: Soap Box Derby]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a soap box derby in Fort Worth. Winners of the race will attend the international derby in Akron. Bob Letson wins the final race.
Date: July 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Eastern Star Opens Annual Convention] (open access)

[News Script: Eastern Star Opens Annual Convention]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the seventy-fourth annual session of the Grand Chapter of Texas, Order of the Eastern Star. Members have raised money for a replica of the Eastern Star home at Arlington.
Date: October 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Doc's Body] (open access)

[News Script: Doc's Body]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the death of Dr. Charles E. Ball, who was found dead in his wife's car.
Date: January 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 'Copter] (open access)

[News Script: 'Copter]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an eleven-passenger helicopter making an emergency landing in the Westland community.
Date: January 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Parade opens in White Settlement] (open access)

[News Script: Parade opens in White Settlement]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth suburb of White Settlement celebrating the 188th anniversary of its founding with a parade and fair.
Date: April 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fireworks] (open access)

[News Script: Fireworks]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Walton Wilfong's fireworks plant and the trouble with finding workers that know how to operate a firework making machine.
Date: June 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Roosevelt wedding] (open access)

[News Script: Roosevelt wedding]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the wedding of Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Henry D. Lindsley in Fort Worth.
Date: April 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Aggie cadets on tour of Carswell] (open access)

[News Script: Aggie cadets on tour of Carswell]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about cadets from Texas A&M University touring Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base.
Date: March 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New phone book lists new numbers] (open access)

[News Script: New phone book lists new numbers]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the distribution of new telephone directory books in Fort Worth.
Date: March 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Champions Crowned in Golden Gloves] (open access)

[News Script: Champions Crowned in Golden Gloves]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the final rounds of the regional Golden Gloves boxing tournament at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum.
Date: January 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: National Guard] (open access)

[News Script: National Guard]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a recruiting call from the 49th Armored Division, which draws Ray Crum, Bobby Crum, and Billy Don Petty to the National Guard at the Lake Worth Armory. There, they are sworn into service and served cake.
Date: February 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Allen out of jail, city bans pinballs] (open access)

[News Script: Allen out of jail, city bans pinballs]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the continued trial of William Prescott Allen, publisher of the Laredo Times, which ran an editorial charging Fort Worth police with rampant gambling and taking bribes.
Date: February 22, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library